I asked a question in today's General Chat earlier, and bubble_bursts recommended I make that question and his answer into its own post, so here we go.
(first, my original question)
Forgive me, but I need to be reminded of one of the basics of this movement.
A common criticism I hear from haters is "He calls himself Q Clearance Patriot, or Q for short. Q clearance is a clearance level within the Department of Energy. What does THAT have to do with anything?"
And I've never been able to shake that question. It's a good point.
If this is a military op, why the Department of Energy?
I know there's an answer for this. I just need to be reminded what it is.
(and now the answer, courtesy of u/bubble_bursts)
Uranium One was what started all this. (Read the full board of the day of the first q drop for me details)
That is the origin of Q and that's where we are headed to disclosure in Iran. Full circle
Q drop 48 was also linked by someone in response to my question, and it looks important:
Let's flesh that out a bit, for the newbs.
"less than 10" appears in 9 drops. The first drop it appears in is drop #60, where Q specifies:
This has created some confusion in some minds. What Q is clarifying is that there are less than 10 individuals who "have the full picture". This does not mean that the 'Q team' or the Q operation was limited to less than 10. It simply means that less than 10 are fully read in on the operation.
As is common in intel projects, operatives are often on a need-to-know basis. They are only informed on what they need to know in order to execute their role and mission. In other words, there may have been many, many operatives who acted as part of what many of us call the Q operation, but at the top, there was less than 10 who knew the whole thing. And, of those, 3 were non-military (ergo, potentially, 6 were military, although "less than...." actually leaves open the possibility that ANY number less than 10, such as 8, 7, 6 etc, is the actual number of those with full knowledge of the operation).
Q affirms this view:
So, there were/are operators dialed in with specific orders, but only the "less than 10" knew it all.
Question: did Q ever state equivocally that the operatives posting on the chans under "Q" were a team?
As far as I know, Q never stated this. Indeed, in some drops, Q identified himself/themselves as an individual:
Q#244
Note the "me".
However, as Banjo above indicates,it is broadly accepted but not confirmed by the OG anon community that, in fact, multiple individuals posted on the chans under "Q", but as far as I know, this hasn't been directly confirmed by Q.
(Again, as Banjo references, this view was based on certain anons' analysis of the writing styles used in the drops, etc.)
Thank you for fleshing that out, I was going for brevity. I can concur with everything you just said.